Takas was a four-year starting catcher who also lettered four years in basketball. The two-time NAIA all-state performer served as the Saints' softball coach and as an assistant basketball coach and 1990-91 interim basketball head coach.

Takas is the only coach in school history to lead two sports programs to national tournament appearances.

Hendrickson had a .421 batting average with 81 runs batted in during the 1981 season to earn NAIA All-American honors. He set a Michigan college single-season home run record that spring with 19.

Heuvelman was Aquinas' top power hitter from 1977-79. He led the Saints to the NAIA state championship in '79 and was named an All-American that season.

Matchinsky was known as a potent line-drive hitter in the mid-1970s who was a two-time All-American and two-time all-state player.

Williams was a city tennis champion at age 16, then went on to star at Aquinas. She has coached Grand Rapids Catholic Central's boys and girls tennis teams for more than two decades and has coached all eight of her children.

College notes

• KATY TAFLER was voted one of nine finalists from all divisions for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award. The former soccer standout at Grand Valley State recently was named Division II's women's Midwest Regional student-athlete of the year. Among Tafler's many achievements at GVSU were: being named Division II's soccer player of the year in 2006 and '07, being selected a three-time All-American, earning an NCAA postgraduate scholarship and receiving the prestigious NCAA Top VII academic award.

• GOALIE JESSE GUEVARA-LEHKER (Grand Rapids Christian) of Aquinas followed up his men's soccer defensive player of the week award in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference by being named the NAIA defensive player of the week. The sophomore had seven saves in a pair of shutout wins, including a 1-0 victory against 20th-ranked St. Xavier (Ill.) University.

• PLAYERS OF THE WEEK in the WHAC also include: Aquinas volleyball setter Katie Vander Meer (East Kentwood) for averaging 10.9 assists and 3.3 digs in wins against Cornerstone and Davenport; men's soccer offensive player of the week Alex Boehm of Davenport after the midfielder scored two goals in a 4-0 win against Concordia University; and women's soccer defensive player of the week Catherine Howard. The Davenport goalie from Lowell made school history with seven saves in shutouts against Cornerstone and Concordia to mark the first back-to-back shutouts by a Panthers women's goalie.

• HOPE COLLEGE KICKER Andrew Schofield, making his college debut, was selected the special teams player of the week in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association after the Flying Dutchmen's 52-45 double-overtime loss against Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The New Jersey sophomore was 6-for-6 on point-after conversions, including the tying PAT with 17 seconds left. He also had a 22-yard field goal.

• IN MIAA VOLLEYBALL, Hope middle hitter/outside hitter Jacie Fiedler is the player of the week and setter Andrea Helminiak the specialty player of the week. Fiedler had 15 kills in a five-set win against St. Mary's College and 52 kills in four matches at Wittenberg (Ohio) University's Border Battle Tournament. Helminiak dished out 43 assists, 12 digs and four aces against St. Mary's, and 152 assists and 43 digs at the Border Battle.

• IN MIAA SOCCER, Calvin College forward Kurt Van Sickel is the player of the week after four goals and an assist in two Knights victories.

• SOPHOMORE MIDFIELDER BRI BORGMAN (West Ottawa) of Ferris State is the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's soccer player of the week after her first career hat trick in a 6-1 win against Ashland and a goal in a 3-2 loss against Northern Michigan. FSU junior midfielder Kara Lovelace (East Kentwood) registered her first two career goals against Ashland.

• ADDITIONAL GLIAC HONORS were given to cross country runner of the week Tyler Emmorey (Cedar Springs) of Grand Valley and golfer of the week Eric Lilleboe of Ferris State. Emmorey was third with a 24:50 in the 8K at the Michigan State Spartan Invitational, leading six Lakers to top-20 finishes against mostly Division I competition, including 10th-place efforts in 25:20 from Forest Hills Northern graduates Ross Faasse and Auburn transfer Simon Nyang. Lilleboe placed second at the Division II Great Lakes Region Tournament No. 1 in South Haven with a 67-71--138. He is averaging 69 strokes this season.

• GVSU USED WINS against Ashland University and Northern Michigan to run its winning streak in GLIAC women's soccer games to 30 in a row.

• QUARTERBACK BRAD ICIEK (Grandville) of Grand Valley has thrown at least one touchdown pass in the past 29 games for the top-ranked team in NCAA Division II. The Lakers are 112-7 in their past 119 games to go with four national titles and a runner-up finish.

• SPENCER KLUKOWSKI (Rockford) of Northwood University was 15-of-21 passing for 233 yards and two touchdowns in the Timberwolves' 32-27 loss against Saginaw Valley State.

• JEFF KARASINSKI (Comstock Park) and Vitaly Schumilov scored a doubles win against Marian (Ind.) College's Bobby Eberhard and Aaron Niemeic at the International Tennis Association's Midwest Regional to record the first victory in Davenport men's tennis history. The Panthers began their inaugural season with a 9-0 loss to Olivet (Ill.) Nazarene.

• JASON GUST, a senior guard from Cedar Springs, plans to play his college basketball at Aquinas.